Dirty Frank

Ms. Haiku
Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
edited October 2005 in Words and Music...Communication
I didn't read the lyrics until today, and before today I thought they would have been funny considering the funkiness of the song. If you know the lyrics, what do you think of this song? Correct me if I'm wrong, but did the author find some sort of nebulous connection between a bus driver and a serial killer? I'm a little taken aback by the lyrics because I was so looking forward to a funny song. I can see the dark humour over time, but at first glance . . .
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  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    From the Lost Dog notes:

    Words: Vedder
    Music: Gossard/Ament/McCready/Abbruzzese
    Album: Ten

    Mike: About a serial killer bus driver? Around the time of the Chili Peppers tour.

    Ed: Rob Zombie should make a movie based on these lyrics.
    "I'd rather be with an animal." "Those that can be trusted can change their mind." "The in between is mine." "If I don't lose control, explore and not explode, a preternatural other plane with the power to maintain." "Yeh this is living." "Life is what you make it."
  • snowman
    snowman Posts: 4
    where did you read the lyrics for Dirty Frank??? I have the Lost Dogs collection but i don't have lyrics for it. if you have em send them to toys_in_the_attic_@hotmail.com
    thanks man.
  • brainofjb
    brainofjb Boston Posts: 381
    "wheres Mike MCready?"
    "MY GOD he's been ate"
    There's the moon asking to stay
    Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    From the sky i scrape:



    12. Dirty Frank
    Written By: Vedder, Gossard, Ament, McCready, Abbruzzese
    Album: Lost Dogs
    Release Date: 2003-11-11
    Found On: Even Flow Single, Lost Dogs


    dirty frank dahmer he's a gourmet cook yeah
    i got a recipe for anglo-saxin soup yeah
    wanted a pass so she relaxed
    now the little groupie's getting chopped up in the back
    i got a cupboard full of fleshy fresh ingredients
    a very careful at the same time quite expedient
    eats meat a release
    bus driving's harder on your head than on your feet
    dirty frank
    a dirty frank, yeah
    a dirty frank
    a dirty frank, yeah
    keeps it clean a keeps it copaseptic
    a-little boys and girls their heads are all collected
    a-not crazy a per se
    just a little strange when he gets hungry
    city, state, your town, he will continue
    a stadium, tiny clubs, every venue
    a-his bus a-your trust
    there goes another turned into crust
    dirty frank
    a dirty frank, yeah
    a dirty frank
    a dirty frank, yeah
    oh middle of the night we're stopped the freeway shoulder
    a-frank's shoveling to bury the leftovers
    a-they're sunk he's drunk
    now he's gonna drive, i'm hiding in my bunk oh
    the band all knows we're too afraid to mention
    a-don't want to be part of frank's luncheon
    a-lose weight a-be safe
    where's mike mccready?
    my god he's been ate!
    dirty frank
    a dirty frank, yeah
    dirty frank
    a dirty frank, yeah
    a dirty frank
    a dirty frank, yeah
    a dirty frank
    a dirty frank, yeah
    why that dirty frank was a bad mother...shut your mouth!
    hey man, i'm just talking about dirty frank
    ok i think that's enough
    "I'd rather be with an animal." "Those that can be trusted can change their mind." "The in between is mine." "If I don't lose control, explore and not explode, a preternatural other plane with the power to maintain." "Yeh this is living." "Life is what you make it."
  • Anduril
    Anduril Posts: 56
    i think its dark humor. i like it. i have a version on one of the imported versions of ten that is different than whats on even flow and lost dogs. the version on ten sounds more complete, has more lyrics.
    I am the end of all your dreams...
  • stonesgstring
    stonesgstring Posts: 4,613
    Hahah first time I have seen the lyrics. They are funny! Just my kind of humour ;)
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  • Spotnthesky
    Spotnthesky Posts: 57
    I think that there's a lightness to the lyrics, not to be taken too seriously.

    Also, it was interesting to find out that this song was from around the time they were touring with RHCP as I feel it is heavily influenced by them, it sounds very similar to Give It Away.
  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    aww. come on Bibliobella! :)
    don't take the song seriously. it is funny, you have to admit. :D
    but the humor is very very dark though..

    Dirty Frank is a great song! :D
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    eMMI wrote:
    aww. come on Bibliobella! :)
    don't take the song seriously. it is funny, you have to admit. :D
    but the humor is very very dark though..

    Dirty Frank is a great song! :D
    You're right, I agree with you. I was just . . . surprised at first reading.

    By the way, how do you get the smiley faces inside your message? Also, do you know how to make the colors of words different inside the message? FinsburyParkCarrots taught me about a year ago, but I forgot, and I don't know where the message would be.
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  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    Bibliobella wrote:
    You're right, I agree with you. I was just . . . surprised at first reading.

    By the way, how do you get the smiley faces inside your message? Also, do you know how to make the colors of words different inside the message? FinsburyParkCarrots taught me about a year ago, but I forgot, and I don't know where the message would be.

    can't blame you for being surprised. :)
    BTW I cant listen to DF in the morning or just before I go to sleep. :D
    it's funny and great, yes, but still a bit disgusting and creepy.. :D

    you just have to type the faces. this one :) you get when you put : and ) together. this :D one forms with these : D. experiment, I still don't know all of them.. :D
    I don't know how to make the coolours change.. maybe someone else..?
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • jeff's_the_man
    jeff's_the_man Posts: 660
    the lyrics are halarious and so is the music...u can hear once they've got about 2/3 of the way thru it that they have no idea where to go! its great, hence the numourous solo's and at the end where ed says, 'ok i think thats enough' funny funny song on so many levels :D

    oh and jeffs best bass work hands down!

    u can tell why they dont play it live, it'd b an absolute train wreck! but everyone would die laughing!
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  • U-R
    U-R Posts: 223
    embodied in this breathtaking composition you will find yourself entranced by a soul-deep and profoundly moving tale that will render you unable to sleep for nights on end. an epic fable of love, life and destiny, one that you will never forget.
    if you love somebody, set them free. if somebody loves you, don't fuck up
  • U-R
    U-R Posts: 223
    jeff's_the_man wrote:
    the lyrics are halarious and so is the music...u can hear once they've got about 2/3 of the way thru it that they have no idea where to go! its great, hence the numourous solo's and at the end where ed says, 'ok i think thats enough' funny funny song on so many levels :D

    oh and jeffs best bass work hands down!

    u can tell why they dont play it live, it'd b an absolute train wreck! but everyone would die laughing!

    lmao, couldn't have said it better jeff, with the way the music is all over the shop suits the ridiculous lyrics perfectly. i've always loved this song, it's fuckin comical, damn funny to listen to. they should do this live dressed in drag or something, it would be hysterical
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  • jeff's_the_man
    jeff's_the_man Posts: 660
    U-R wrote:
    lmao, couldn't have said it better jeff, with the way the music is all over the shop suits the ridiculous lyrics perfectly. i've always loved this song, it's fuckin comical, damn funny to listen to. they should do this live dressed in drag or something, it would be hysterical


    LMAO! yeah! as ed said it would make an awesome rob zombie movie! i think they guys should definatley consider it....it would be the best b-grade movie ever!!!!
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    U-R wrote:
    embodied in this breathtaking composition you will find yourself entranced by a soul-deep and profoundly moving tale that will render you unable to sleep for nights on end. an epic fable of love, life and destiny, one that you will never forget.
    Yes, everyone's favorite neighborhood cannibal bus driver :D
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • one way needle
    one way needle Posts: 196
    Anduril wrote:
    i think its dark humor.

    Totally! When i read the original post i thought 'uh oh, am i sick that i think they're really funny?!' I have decided, i'm not. Those lyrics have always cracked me up
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  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    one way needle wrote:
    Totally! When i read the original post i thought 'uh oh, am i sick that i think they're really funny?!' I have decided, i'm not. Those lyrics have always cracked me up

    for sure! :D

    hahaha. *listening to DF*

    the lyrics are amazing! but when I talk about DF to my friends, they don't get it.. :( maybe I should make them listen to it. :D
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • twisted_twistette
    twisted_twistette Posts: 113
    The end is a definite rip-off from Freakey Styley... "cook em, just to see the look on their face" vs the peppers "fuck em, just to see the look on their face"

    Pretty damn funny... I will always love Dirty Frank...



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  • BUENA
    BUENA Posts: 165
    Great song. I think its about a early bus driver on a early tour. I like the "Even Flow" version better than the edited version on Lost Dogs
    "It's the American Dream I am disbelieving... When the gas in my tank feels like money in the bank... I’m gonna blow it all this time, take me one last ride..." - Gone (vedder)

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